Britain's Mr Average: The typical 'hunter male' will spend 11 years of his life in front of the TV and £2,000 online

Each year he will spend £570 a year on designer clothes, £1,144 on beer, more than £2,001 shopping online, £2,189 on gadgets and £417 eating out.

But it seems that modern men are feeling guilty about their lazy lifestyles because they will say sorry 1.9 million times during their lifetime.

When it comes to his behavioural traits in relation to shopping, 70 per cent of men fit the 'hunter' profile, with the average 'hunter' male seeing shopping as a way of collecting belongings that assert wealth, dominance and social status - all of which

were once necessary for survival.

Mr Average v Mrs Average

Mr Average:

Says sorry 1.9m times

Can cook four meals (including spaghetti bolognese)

Has four per cent more brain cells

Mrs Average:

Will spend 8.5 years of her life shopping

Will spend more than £43,000 on cosmetics

Has four times as many brain cells connecting the right and left sides of the brain

Although men are increasingly involved in the shopping experience, women are still the main purchasers in most households and tend to do approximately 80 per cent of household shopping.

When it comes to physical traits, the research among 1,000 people by shopping website Kelkoo found men are on average 30 per cent stronger than women, have four per cent more brain cells weighing approximately 100 grammes more and have better distance vision and depth perception.

Men also have a larger lung and heart capacity than women and 3.2 per cent more 'fast twitch' muscle fibres making them more suited to shorter intense sprints.

While the average woman is 5ft four inches tall and weighs 65 kgs, she has four times as many cells connecting the right and left sides of the brain, making her better at problem solving and multi-tasking.

Women also have better night vision and visual memory and are better suited to endurance tasks.

Female traits: Throughout Mrs Average's lifetime she will spend £103 a year on shoes and vacuum 7,300 miles

An amazing sequence of photographs captured a bull elephant flipping over a car like a toy in the Pilansberg Game Reserve in South Africa.

The elephant v car bout began when Irishman John Somers, on holiday celebrating his 66th birthday and driving through the park with a friend, decided to try and overtake a huge and horny bull elephant.

Bad mistake.

Elephant v car: Round 2 (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)

The elephant, called Amarula, at first rubbed itself up against the car, perhaps mistaking it for a female mate.

But then the beast, pumped full of hormones, became aggressive and flipped the car on its roof as the terrified occupants clung on for dear life inside.

John Somers' car ended up on its roof (Picture: Great Stock/Barcroft Media)

This brush with death wasn’t on the pair’s itinerary, but luckily they suffered only minor cuts and bruises from the incident.

The snaps were taken by photographer Riaan van Wyk, who was watching from a safe distance!

Russia to class beer as alcohol

Beer is to be legally classified as an alcoholic drink in Russia for the first time.

It's part of the Kremlin's toughest anti-alcohol campaign since the fall of the Soviet Union.

Beer had been classified as a foodstuff which meant producers could avoid a crackdown on alcohol advertising and night-time sales.

But a new bill will abolish beer's special status, dragging Russian alcohol regulation into the 21st century.

"Normalising the beer production market and classifying it as alcohol is totally the right thing to do and will boost the health of our population," said Yevgeny Bryun, the ministry of health's chief specialist on alcohol and drug abuse.

"We have been talking about and have wanted such a measure for ages. I take my hat off to the parliament."

The new law would restrict beer sales at night, ban its sale in or close to many public places such as schools, and limit cans and bottles to a maximum size of 0.33 litres.

Russia's beer consumption has more than tripled in the past 15 years, boosted by low prices, ready availability and lax regulation.

But with vodka remaining the national tipple, many Russians regard beer as a soft drink.

It's not uncommon to see men swigging a can of beer on their way to work or teenagers downing a lunchtime beer or two in the park.

Fresh Inca treasures unearthed as discovery of nine tombs in Peruvian Andes is hailed as 'the most significant since Machu Picchu'

It could force historians to reconsider the origins of the mighty Inca empire.

Archaeologists have discovered and excavated nine tombs in Peru from the pre-Hispanic Wari civilisation, the Peruvian government said yesterday.

The finding in the southern Cusco region suggests the Wari, who flourished in the Peruvian Andes between 700 and 1200 AD, may have controlled areas where the Inca empire later flourished.

Historically important: Archaeologists have discovered nine tombs in Peru from the pre-Hispanic Wari civilization. The finding in the southern Cusco region suggests the Wari may have controlled areas where the Inca empire later flourished

Juan Ossio, Peru's minister of culture, said: 'The Incas could have been inspired by the Wari culture, enabling them to develop their entire political system.'

The Incas built the largest empire in the New World between 1400 and 1532 AD.

Spanish conquistadors had seized control of their territory, pushing them to take final refuge in the Vilcabamba district in Cusco, where the tombs were found.

The tombs show the Wari also inhabited the thick jungles of Vilcabamba and possibly inspired the political structure of the elaborate Inca empire, Mr Ossio said.

Prize find: This silver breastplate belonged to a noble from the Wari culture

The remains of a Wari noble with a silver breastplate is the prize of the find.

Archaeologists have dubbed the noble the 'The Lord of Vilca' in reference to the Lord of Sipan, an intact third century mummy found in northern Peru in 1987.

'This is the most important discovery we've had in recent years - perhaps since Machu Picchu,' said Juan Garcia, regional culture director of Cusco, referring to the Incan citadel that draws some 500,000 visitors per year.

Peru will celebrate the 100-year anniversary of Machu Picchu's discovery in July. Yale University last year agreed to return thousands of artifacts taken from the site in the early 1900s, ending a bitter controversy.

A pre-Inca lord: Gold and silver pieces are shown at Peru's National Institute of Culture in Cuzco

Thousands of criminal records detailing the harsh punishments handed our to female convicts in Victorian times will be published online for the first time today.

Family history website, Ancestry.co.uk is publishing more than 4,400 criminal records and 500 mugshots in its collection, which included one woman who received a five year sentence for stealing an umbrella.

They provide an astonishing insight into the way justice was done at the time, and indicted that gender and the offence committed was no barrier to the full force of the law.

Harsh: Elizabeth Murphy was sentenced to five years in prison and seven years police supervision for stealing an umbrella. The records have been released by Ancestry.co.uk

Criminal: The record of Mary Richards, who was jailed for five years in 1880 for stealing 130 oysters valued at eight shillings

Women and young girls featured in the records include Mary Richards, who was jailed for five years in 1880 at the age 59 for stealing 130 oysters valued at eight shillings.

Another tells of Dorcas Mary Snell, 45, who was sentenced to five years of imprisonment with hard labour in 1883 for the theft of a single piece of bacon, although she was paroled two years later.

Elizabeth Murphy, who stole the umbrella, received a five years of hard labour in 1884 and seven years of police supervision. She served three years of her sentence before receiving parole in 1887.

Locked up: The record of Dorcas Mary Snell details that she was convicted of larceny for taking a solitary rasher of bacon. She received five years

The records also detail the lengthy, unforgiving sentences given to women who procured abortions, including Mary Billingham who was sentenced to 20 years of imprisonment and hard labour in 1875.

Age also didn't appear to matter to Victorian judges. The youngest girl in the records, named Ann McQuillan, is aged just 11, and among 115 girls under 18 who feature in the collection.

By contrast, 76-year-old Ann Dalton who was convicted for stealing 'two sheets' in 1863 is the oldest convict in the records. She received five years, serving three of them.

Murderer: Elizabeth Ann Staunton, 29, was convicted of killing Harriet Staunton in 1877, but was spared the death sentence and paroled six years later

Meanwhile, the records detail a number of violent crimes which women were convicted of.

Mary Morrison, a 40-year-old servant, threw sulphuric acid over her estranged husband for not paying her weekly allowance, shouting 'take that - I'll make you worse than you are'. She received five years in 1883 but served only three.

Elizabeth Ann Staunton, 29, was convicted of the murder of Harriet Staunton in 1877. Elizabeth was spared the death penalty and instead sentenced to life. She was granted parole six years later.

Unforgiving: Mary Billingham, who helped to procure abortions, was given 20 years by a judge in 1875

Ancestry.co.uk said the records, the originals of which are held by the National Archives, provide a picture of the 'harsh' British judicial system at the time.

Ancestry.co.uk international content director Dan Jones said: 'Crime is more often associated with men; however, these intriguing records shed light on some rather colourful female lawbreakers of their day and, given the petty nature of many of their crimes, also serves as a reminder of how harsh our judicial system was not so very long ago.'

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